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21 lip 2020 · Plant evolutionary history (highlighted in red) can refer to both pre-existing lineages, which influence biome structure via a whole range of plant traits, and evolution within a biome – which can also be relevant to biome composition and structure.
Geobotany (plant ecology-plant geography) is the science of the relationship of plants to the environment, the earth. Several of the seven points fall into this definition.
The origin of plants and the oldest extant plants — the glaucophytes — are discussed. Plant life histories are shown to consist of alternating stages or generations: between a haploid generation and a sporophyte generation.
Historical biogeography combines taxonomy (phylogenetics) with knowledge of both present and past climates and geography in trying to explain how plants and animals have attained their current distributions.
Phytogeography is concerned with all aspects of plant distribution, from the controls on the distribution of individual species ranges (at both large and small scales, see species distribution) to the factors that govern the composition of entire communities and floras.
1 paź 2013 · Plant ecology evolved out of phytogeography and physiology (Billings 1985:5–6), to which was added during the 1890s investigations of plant communities and vegetation succession. Physiology was important, but played a relatively passive role: its significance often depending on how well phytogeographers understood it.
7 paź 2019 · Originally published in 1981 Historical Plant Geography is an introductory treatment of historical plant geography and stresses the basic theoretical frame of the subject. The book is about neither the study of vegetation nor the concept of the ecosystem, instead focusing on the much older tradition concerned with analysing the geographical ...
